
Senior Manager - Post Opportunity Review
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
This role is critical to strengthening our commercial strategy through persistent follow-up, deep analysis, and decisive action via Post-Opportunity Reviews (POR).1. Ship-to-Commit Management – Lead the Ship-to-Commit program for global customers, driving the smart growth principles of the Deal Review 3.0 (DR03) framework.
2. Lost Deal Reviews – Oversee post-opportunity reviews for lost customers, capturing insights from lost deals and applying them to improve future outcomes.
3. Continuous Improvement – Support ongoing enhancement of the DR03 program, embedding POR practices as a core commercial and pricing priority. Act as a strategic influencer, ensuring commercial teams focus not only on winning business but also on realizing value after deals are secured.
This role requires strong stakeholder and process management on a global scale, with flexibility to travel and work across multiple time zones.The role location is either Singapore or Maastricht (The Netherlands).How will you contribute to the success of DHL?Post-Opportunity Review Lead – Won Deals (Ship-to-Commit Management)
- Lead the Post-Opportunity Review (POR) process to ensure pricing offers and TRB decisions translate into realized revenue, with direct ownership of Ship-to-Commit assessments across all global sales channels.
- Manage and administer Deal Review 3.0 POR tech solutions, using performance logs and KPI-driven dashboards to monitor profile realization, margin tracking, pricing outcomes, and customer compliance.
- Take full accountability for monitoring and enforcing the realization of:
- New business vs committed potential
- Margin performance and quality revenue delivery
- Surcharge compliance vs commitments
- Contract implementation and adherence to customer commitments
- Engage proactively with commercial stakeholders (e.g., customer managers, industry leads, global channel heads) on revenue shortfalls or quality-of-revenue concerns, driving corrective actions when outcomes deviate from TRB commitments. Direct customer engagement as needed.
- Ensure sustained commercial ownership of Ship-to-Commit through structured follow-ups, strict accountability, and escalation of non-compliance.
- Drive proactive use of Ship-to-Commit insights by Global Customer Pricing and regional tender teams to address revenue gaps, particularly in repeat TRB approvals for the same customer.
- Support continuous improvement by sharing learnings and enabling pricing teams to conduct local POR reviews.
- Lead the global POR process for lost deals, leveraging inputs from regional tender teams’ won/lost reports and ensuring timely, high-quality updates.
- Identify high-impact lost opportunities and engage customer managers in insight-driven discussions to uncover root causes and define actionable next steps.
- Conduct customer discussions when necessary to understand RFQ priorities and reasons for lost deals, using insights to guide immediate interventions and shape future RFQ strategies.
- Extract industry-specific insights to inform competitive pricing strategies and strengthen RFQ positioning.
- Establish a feedback loop, recording findings from PORs and sharing them with Pricing, Commercial Leadership, and cross-functional teams for real-time course correction and knowledge building.
- Act as a pricing advisor to the commercial organization, translating learnings into practical guidance to enhance GCP teams’ acumen and improve win rates.
- Co-lead enhancements to Deal Review 3.0 with the Director of Deal Review, focusing on upgraded metrics, visualizations, and reports to strengthen TRB and POR frameworks.
- Continuously improve dashboards and reports to enable data-driven decision-making and track post-deal performance against key metrics.
- Drive mindset shifts across commercial and tender teams by reinforcing the importance of customer commitment compliance, embedding POR as a core discipline, and fostering a learning culture.
- Onboard new TRB members and commercial teams on POR concepts, equipping them to focus on follow-ups and evaluate deal outcomes more effectively.
- Provide recommendations to VP Customer Pricing, Director of Deal Review, and Systems & Tools teams on system and process improvements to enhance program effectiveness.
- Translate global Ship-to-Commit and lost deal review insights into practical frameworks for country-level adaptation with local customers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field; Master’s/MBA preferred.
- 8+ years in Global/Country Pricing or Commercial Support with customer engagement.
- 2+ years in a managerial role.
- Experience handling complex pricing offers; DHL Express TRB exposure is an advantage.
- Strong data analytics skills; ability to work with large datasets (SQL, Cognos, PowerBI, MS Office).
- Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and negotiation skills with a profit-focused mindset.
- Broad industry knowledge and understanding of DHL processes, especially billing, costing, and pricing.
- Ability to work independently, coach team members, and deliver under pressure.
- Effective presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable in an international, multicultural environment.
- Assertive and confident in discussions.
- Skilled in driving customer compliance (NPC, Fuel Surcharge, S&S, T&Cs, etc.).
- Willing to support customer discussions as needed.
- Excellent English (written and verbal); additional regional languages are an asset.
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339510 Singapore